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Jazz trumpeter who toured for decades with music groups led by Chick Webb, Cab Calloway, Teddy Hill, and Benny Goodman. He also produced some solo work in between those engagements.He created some his best works in his later life, taking up singing when he was in his seventies.A lifelong admirer of Louis Armstrong, he based a good deal of his music on Armstrong's sound.
BEFORE FAMEEarly in his career, he was inspired by the jazz and dixieland music of King Oliver.
PERSONAL LIFEHe was born Adolphus Anthony Cheatham in Nashville, Tennessee.
FUN FACTSTrumpet Player Doc Cheatham were born on Tuesday, birthstone is Pearl, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Snake, it is 154 days until Doc Cheatham next birthday.
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